Three campaigning organisations have rallied behind a newly created panel of
human rights law firms assembled to help to secure the release of the
detained artist-activist Ai Weiwei.

Amnesty International, Avaaz, and Change.org have backed the legal panel,
drawn together by The Times, which has pledged to offer free advice
to Ai, his family and advisers.

The three-firm legal panel is headed by some of Britain’s most prolific human
rights lawyers: the Justice human rights lawyer of the year, Jules Carey,
partner at Tuckers, who advised the family of Ian Tomlinson on their action
against the police; Saimo Chahal, partner